Re: [PATCH v6 3/6] watchdog: ts4800: add driver for TS-4800 watchdog

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On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 02:29:56PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 02:25:04PM -0500, Damien Riegel wrote:
> > This watchdog is instantiated in a FPGA that is memory mapped. It is
> > made of only one register, called the feed register. Writing to this
> > register will re-arm the watchdog for a given time (and enable it if it
> > was disable). It can be disabled by writing a special value into it.
> > 
> > It is part of a syscon block, and the watchdog register offset in this
> > block varies from board to board. This offset is passed in the syscon
> > property after the phandle to the syscon node.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Damien Riegel <damien.riegel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  .../devicetree/bindings/watchdog/ts4800-wdt.txt    |  25 +++
> >  drivers/watchdog/Kconfig                           |  10 +
> >  drivers/watchdog/Makefile                          |   1 +
> >  drivers/watchdog/ts4800_wdt.c                      | 215 +++++++++++++++++++++
> >  4 files changed, 251 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/ts4800-wdt.txt
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/watchdog/ts4800_wdt.c
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/ts4800-wdt.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/ts4800-wdt.txt
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..388c60f
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/ts4800-wdt.txt
> > @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
> > +Technologic Systems Watchdog
> > +
> > +Required properties:
> > +- compatible: must be "technologic,ts4800-wdt"
> > +- syscon: phandle / integer array that points to the syscon node which
> > +          describes the FPGA's syscon registers.
> > +          - phandle to FPGA's syscon
> > +          - offset to the watchdog register
> > +
> > +Optional property:
> > +- timeout-sec: contains the watchdog timeout in seconds.
> > +
> > +Example:
> > +
> > +syscon: syscon@b0010000 {
> > +	compatible = "syscon", "simple-mfd";
> > +	reg = <0xb0010000 0x3d>;
> > +	bus-width = <16>;
> > +
> > +	wdt@e {
> > +		compatible = "technologic,ts4800-wdt";
> > +		syscon = <&syscon 0xe>;
> 
> If this is single register only for the watchdog, why do you need 
> syscon? You can just use reg.

Because this is a single 16-bit register dedicated to the watchdog in a
60-register syscon.
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